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- Photar, on 10/10/2007, -2/+26"Data presentation can be both beautiful, elegant and descriptive." Haha, he said both and then listed 3 things. Rookie mistake.
- narc, on 10/10/2007, -2/+13Hans Rosling ftw http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/92
- jcoutts, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10RIP Pie chart and Bar Graph
- CoolHanLuke, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8A very informative (no pun intended) read. For more on data visualization, I recommend Edward Tufte's works - http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/
- CaptainLando, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5Having just come off of a 10 week visual analytics project, I must say I found this interesting. Especially the sheer number of ways people have implemented visualization methods.
Here is another visualization method (not web based) that allows environmental scientists to look at air quality data in 3D. Yes there are pretty 3d pics.
http://webpages.uncc.edu/~ltharri1/3d.html - Tivor, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Absolute winner. That video is one of the most amazing thing I've ever seen.
- hiPpymIck, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2fun insult from Digg story earlier today..
"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination."
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) - dmoffitt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2yes, this one was INCREDIBLE!!
- arjie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3Some of those things are really cool.
But when I saw 'Modern Approaches' I thought this was going to be another take on those godawful 'pixel charts', you know, those things that are just so completely useless. - notorious., on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Hah, I didn't even notice that. wtg Smashing Magazine!
- CaptainLando, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I agree here on the importance of interaction on the part of the user. On my air quality project we developed tools that not only rendered the data in 3d but also let the user rotate, zoom, adjust colors for values, even extract features to compare with other sets. Granted this took much more work but in the end I believe the best term to describe it is "Visual Analytics"
- deadsQuerl, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Not sure how useful most of that is, seems unnecessarily complicated to my simple brain.. I think the good thing to take from the list is that people are TRYING new ways, and something good is bound to come out of it.
- Homunculiheaded, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2'Many Eyes' is a research project at IBM where anyone can upload their own data and run it through some pretty nice visualization tools: http://services.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/app
The researchers there have done some really neat stuff with visualizing data from the wikipedia as well. It's amazing how valuable the eye can be at finding patterns in data that the raw numbers don't immediately reveal. - dmoffitt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1well, just like the speaker - not everyone on t3h intarweb speaks engrish as their first language... who knows if this user does (I didn't feel like e-stalking to find out).
- dmoffitt, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I loved the TED video
- willi, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I prefer information visualization, where interaction and manipulating on the visualized data is also important, instead of somewhat static graphical representation of data.
- LANjackal, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1amazing article :). Dugg.
- r5a2k3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1There's some really awesome ***** there.
- danarama, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1wow tonnes of great examples. I was all set to post Hans Rosling TED Talk video but they've covered all the bases.
- CaptainLando, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Great catch!
- Typhoon2009, on 10/10/2007, -8/+1100001010101011000010101010111111101010101101111101000101011110000
- kashifraza, on 10/10/2007, -12/+0no doubt very informative
http://thehealthcare.blogspot.com
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